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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

BREAKING | Cindy Sheehan: "I Have Decided Not to Run" www.truthout.org Cindy Sheehan: "I have decided not to run, but I am calling on all Californians and Americans to support all anti-war candidates to promote a paradigm of peace in the world, and I will be supporting and working for dozens of anti-war candidates all over the country."

On February 6 2006, an investigative report in the Christian Science Monitor revealed previously undisclosed details about a U.S. program to fund opposition organizations in Venezuela in the leadup to this year's presidential elections. The Office for Transition Initiatives, a little-known division of USAID, is chaneling millions of U.S. tax dollars to fund anti-Chavez organizations.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 ' A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.

"Even if this were the whole story, Google is absolutely correct in refusing to hand over the data, and there is no legal basis for compelling it to do so. As the San Jose Mercury News said in its editorial of January 20, 'The request is not an appropriate use of subpoena power. The government wants Google's data not as evidence in a case, but rather to conduct an experiment which it hopes will show that Internet porn filters are ineffective. In short, the government wants Google to help make its case, using the company as a research arm.'

Today, I am releasing a staff report entitled, "The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Coverups in the Iraq War.

Note:Please go to my website, www.johnconyers.com, where you will find an action center, including a copy of the Report via Raw Story, and ways you can help. Also visit www.censurebush.org to join with other activists who want to move this issue forward.

In my opinion, we need to fight, resist, refuse to subsidize Washington in every way, and we must immediately begin impeachment proceedings against this president, not only because he has clearly earned impeachment, but in order to revive a national awareness of the intent of the Founding Fathers to circumscribe centralized state power, and their vision of a free and peaceful Republic.

By ordering the National Security Agency to spy on American citizens without a judicial warrant, Bush has gone too far. He is clearly violating the law. He believes his authority is unconstrained by the Constitution he swore to uphold, and like Napoleon, he has crowned himself King. Well he is not our king, he is not our emperor and he is not above the law.

A general election is to be held in Mexico on Sunday, 2 July 2006. Voters will go the polls to elect, on the federal level:

A new President of the Republic, to serve a six-year term, replacing current incumbent President Vicente Fox. 500 deputies (300 by the first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Chamber of Deputies. 128 senators (three per state and 32 from national party lists) to serve six-year terms in the Senate.

I got an email today from DRCNet (an anti-drug war group), which mentioned a terribly sad story about an innocent man named Rudy Cardenas who was shot by Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement officer Mike Walker.

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